HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE WINNERS UK
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www.haftw.wordpress.com
www.brainwashed.com
www.haftw.bandcamp.com
Start : 2009
Owner : James Kirby
Distr. : UK - Boomkat
US - Forced Exposure
Style : ambient / dark ambient / jazz / modern classical / noise / drone
/ metal / home listening /
HAFTW 001 LEYLAND KIRBY : SADLY , THE FUTURE IS NO LONGER WHAT 6LP.3CD 10.2009
IT WAS
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HAFTW 002 THE CARETAKER : THEORETICALLY PURE ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA 72DL 03.2009
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HAFTW 003 THE CARETAKER : PERSISTENT REPETITION OF PHRASES LP.DL 08.2009
(Note : LP , 500 copies) CD 08.2009
HAFTW 003 THE CARETAKER : PERSISTENT REPETITION OF PHRASES CD 04.2018
LP 1. Lacunar Amnesia 03:29
2. Persistant Repetition Of Phrases 06:17
3. Rosy Retrospection 05:09
4. Long Term (Remote) 04:19
5. Poor Enunciation 05:05
6. Past Life Regression 04:35
7. False Memory Syndrome 03:55
8. Von Restorff Effect 05:34
9. Unmasking Alzheimer's 05:25
2LP 1. Confusion so thick you forget forgetting 21:53
2. A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat 21:36
3. Long decline is over 21:09
4. Place in the World fades away 21:19
2018 New gatefold digipak edition of this long-out-of-print masterpiece. Out of
print since 2010.
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HAFTW 006 LEYLAND KIRBY:SADLY,THE FUTURE IS NO LONGER WHAT IT WAS 6LP 02.2010
(Note : boxset , 300 copies)
HAFTW 006 LEYLAND KIRBY:SADLY,THE FUTURE IS NO LONGER WHAT IT WAS 2LP 05.2017
(Note : double LP , 400 copies on black vinyl)
HAFTW 006 LEYLAND KIRBY:SADLY,THE FUTURE IS NO LONGER WHAT IT WAS 2LP 05.2017
(Note : double LP , 250 copies on gold vinyl)
HAFTW 006 LEYLAND KIRBY:SADLY,THE FUTURE IS NO LONGER WHAT IT WAS MP3 05.2017
2LP 1. When Did Our Dreams And Futures Drift So Far Apart 09:52
2. Not Even Nostalgia Is As Good As It Used To Be 09:40
3. Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was 20:25
4. Stay Light There Is A Rainbow A Coming 12:16
5. And Nothing Comes Between The Sadness And The Scream 06:59
6. Ive Hummed This Tune To All The Girls Ive Known 12:47
7. Not As She Is Now But As She Appears In My Dreams 06:55
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HAFTW 007 LEYLAND KIRBY : MEMORIES LIVE LONGER THAN DREAMS 2LP 10.2009
HAFTW 007 LEYLAND KIRBY : MEMORIES LIVE LONGER THAN DREAMS 2LP+DLc 06.2017
(Note : 2LP , 400 copies on black vinyl, Artwork by Ivan
Seal, master by Lupo)
HAFTW 007 LEYLAND KIRBY : MEMORIES LIVE LONGER THAN DREAMS 2LP 06.2017
(Note : 2LP , Gold Vinyl Pressing, 250 copies only. Incl.
instant Download. Artwork by Ivan Seal, master by Lupo)
1. Memories Live Longer Than Dreams 08:36
2. Dont Sleep Im Not What I Seem Im A Very Quiet Storm 13:16
3. A Longing To Be Absorbed For A While Into A Different
And Beautiful World 13:19
4. Days In The Wilderness 04:16
5. Stralauer Peninsula 16:55
6. We All Won That Day Sunshine 12:44
7. And At Dawn Armed With Glowing Patience We Will Enter
The Cities Of Glory Stripped 10:46
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HAFTW 008 THE CARETAKER : AN EMPTY BLISS BEYOND THIS WORLD LP 05.2011
LP 11.2011
LP 08.2019
1. All you're going to want to do is get back there03:46
2. Moments of sufficient lucidity 03:47
3. The great hidden sea of the unconscious 03:02
4. Libet's delay 03:26
5. I feel as if I might be vanishing 01:55
6. An empty bliss beyond this World 04:19
7. Bedded deep in long term memory 01:48
8. A relationship with the sublime 03:36
9. Mental caverns without Sunshine 03:13
10. Pared back to the minimal 01:45
11. Mental caverns without Sunshine 01:35
12. An empty bliss beyond this World 03:48
13. Tiny gradiations of loss 02:52
14. Camaraderie at arms length 04:45
15. The sublime is disappointingly elusive 01:44
1st.ed. ???
2nd ed. 300 copies on transparent vinyl
2019 ed. pressed on silver vinyl - 500 copies. Mastered by
Lupo, artwork by Ivan Seal. Also includes a boomkat
'Essential releases of the 2010's' sticker and an
instant download
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HAFTW 009 LEYLAND KIRBY : INTRIGUE & STUFF VOL.1 LP 04.2011
1 Video 2000
2 Re-Record Not Fade Away
3 Neon Lit Atoms
4 Live For The Future, Long For The Past
5 Low Entropy
6 Ruined Visions
(Note : LP , 700 copies)
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HAFTW 010 LEYLAND KIRBY : EAGER TO TEAR APART THE STARS LP.CD 09.2011
A1 The Arrow Of Time 3:12
A2 This Is The Story Of Paradise Lost 9:43
A3 To Reject The World 1:28
A4 No Longer Distance Than Death 7:53
B1 They Are All Dead, There Are No Skip At All 10:25
B2 My Dream Contained A Star 10:13
(Note : LP , black or white vinyl)
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HAFTW 011 LEYLAND KIRBY : INTRIGUE & STUFF VOLUME 2 LP 07.2011
A1 Eventually, It Eats Your Lungs 11:51
A2 Speeded Up Slow Motion 4:39
B Complex Expedition 19:21
(Note : LP , 500 copies on clear vinyl)
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HAFTW 012 LEYLAND KIRBY INTRIGUE & STUFF VOL.3 LP 11.2011
A1 The Start Of Wars And The End Of Eras 10:21
A2 Fleeting Modern 3:28
A3 Lie Low, Pick Your Moment 5:15
B1 The Watcher And The Watched 7:52
B2 We Might Just Lose This One 6:25
(Note : LP , 500 copies , black or clear vinyl)
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HAFTW 013 THE CARETAKER PATIENCE (AFTER SEBALD) LP 01.2012
HAFTW 013 THE CARETAKER PATIENCE (AFTER SEBALD) CD 04.2018
Everything Is On The Point Of Decline
As If One Was Sinking Into Sand
Approaching The Outer Limitsof Our Solar System
When The Dog Days Were Drawing To An End
A Last Glimpse Of The Being Lost Forever
The Homesickness That Was Corroding Her Soul
I Have Become Almost Invisible,To Some Extent Like A Dead Man
In The Deep And Dark Hours Of The Night
No One Knows Shadowy Memories Haunt Them To This Day
Increasingly Absorbed In His Own World
Isolated Lights In The Abyssof Ignorance
Now The Night Is Over And The Dawn Is About To Break
(Note : LP , 700 copies on transp.blue vinyl)
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HAFTW 014 LEYLAND KIRBY INTRIGUE & STUFF VOL.4 LP 05.2014
1 Locked Into Situations
2 Derelict Bar
3 The Tar Sands
4 Night Owls
5 Wanting An Absolute Beyond
(Note : LP, initial copies press. on transparent wax, rest black ; mastered and cut
by LUPO)
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HAFTW 015 LEYLAND KIRBY PRES. V/W : THE DEATH OF RAVE (A PARTIAL LP 05.2014
FLASHBACK)
A1 Monroes Stockport
A2 Moggy & Wearden
A3 Machete's At The Banshee
A4 Acid Alan, Haggis & Scott
B1 Marple Libradome '91
B2 Smithy & Dave The Rave
B3 Big Eddie's Van - Bowlers Car Park
B4 Xr2 Mk1 Sale Waterpark
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HAFTW 016 THE STRANGER BLEAKLOW (REMASTERED) 2LP 09.2014
HAFTW 016 THE STRANGER BLEAKLOW (REMASTERED) 2LP 01.2019
1. Something To Do With Death 5:10
2. Exposure 4:28
3. Exhumation 8:47
4. Solemn Dedication 4:45
5. Indefinite Ridge 5:17
6. Kirkbymoorside 7:05
7. Inverted Burial 6:11
8. Bleaklow 6:08
9. Bob Greaves 4:45
10. A Melody Drags Me Back 5:15
11. Ominous Sunset 5:58
(Note : first 250 copies pressed on transparent yellow vinyl, featuring original
artwork by Ivan Seal)
2019 New vinyl edition (300 copies) of this killer 2008 album from The Stranger,
aka James Leyland Kirby / The Caretaker. Remastered and cut by Matt Colton
at Alchemy, featuring original artwork by Ivan Seal.
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HAFTW 023 LEYLAND KIRBY : WE, SO TIRED OF ALL THE DARKNESS IN 16DL .2017
IN OUR LIVES
A1 Consolation 4:38
A2 Momentum Is Not On Our Side 6:06
A3 Oblivion Of Experience 7:33
A4 Rotten Rave Tropes 3:59
B1 Rain Drenched 4:34
B2 Dig Deep March On 6:03
B3 Positive Outcome 4:33
B4 Drowning In The Quagmire 9:21
C1 Clickbait 7:06
C2 Plastic False World 7:18
C3 Collected Light 4:00
C4 Solid Mentality 4:35
D1 Tinseltown 5:09
D2 Bursts Of Anxiety 8:24
D3 Sickly Strawberry Nostalgia 4:50
D4 Back In The Game 5:57
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HAFTW 024 THE CARETAKER : TAKE CARE, IT'S A DESERT OUT THERE CD 12.2017
HAFTW 024 THE CARETAKER : TAKE CARE, IT'S A DESERT OUT THERE CD 04.2018
1 Take Care, It's A Desert Out There... 48:33
(Note : CD , signed edition of 350 individually numbered copies. Mastered by Stephan
Mathieu. Cover features the painting "Blame Shines Within The Demise" by Ivan
Seal. 100% of sales from this release will be donated to the mental health
charity MIND)
A new album of exclusive, previously unreleased material from The Caretaker
released in memory of and for Mark Fisher, the legendary writer, cultural
theorist and pioneering blogger (k-punk) who passed away on the 13th January 2017.
2018 Second edition of 400 copies. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu. Cover features
the painting "Blame Shines Within The Demise" by Ivan Seal. 100% of sales
from this release will be donated to the mental health charity MIND.
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HAFTW 025 THE CARETAKER EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME LP 09.2016
HAFTW 025 THE CARETAKER EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME LP 02.2017
1. Its just a burning memory 03:32
2. We don’t have many days 03:35
3. Late afternoon drifting 03:30
4. Childishly fresh eyes 02:58
5. Slightly bewildered 02:01
6. Things that are beautiful and transient 04:34
7. All that follows is true 03:31
8. An autumnal equinox 02:46
9. Quiet internal rebellions 03:30
10. The loves of my entire life 04:04
11. Into each others eyes 04:36
12. My heart will stop with joy 02:41
(Note : LP , Limited edition , first 300 copies pressed on blue vinyl. Mastered and
cut by Lupo, artwork by Ivan Seal). 2017 re-press on black vinyl
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HAFTW 026 THE CARETAKER : Everywhere At The End Of Time–Stage 2 LP 04.2017
(Note : LP , black vinyl, mastered and cut by Lupo,
artwork by Ivan Seal)
HAFTW 026 THE CARETAKER : Everywhere At The End Of Time–Stage 2 LP 04.2017
(Note : LP , coloured vinyl, mastered and cut by Lupo,
artwork by Ivan Seal)
1. A losing battle is raging 04:37
2. Misplaced in time 04:42
3. What does it matter how my heart breaks 02:37
4. Glimpses of hope in trying times 04:43
5. Surrendering to despair 05:03
6. I still feel as though I am me 04:07
7. Quiet dusk coming early 03:36
8. Last moments of pure recall 03:52
9. Denial unravelling 04:16
10. The way ahead feels lonely 04:15
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HAFTW 027 THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 3 LP 09.2017
(Note : black vinyl edition. Mastered and cut by Lupo,
artwork by Ivan Seal)
HAFTW 027 THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 3 LP 09.2017
(Note : strictly limited blue vinyl edition. Mastered
and cut by Lupo, artwork by Ivan Seal)
HAFTW 027 THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 3 DL 09.2017
1. Back there Benjamin 04:14
2. And heart breaks 04:05
3. Hidden sea buried deep 01:20
4. Libets all joyful camaraderie 03:12
5. To the minimal great hidden 01:41
6. Sublime beyond loss 02:10
7. Bewildered in others eyes 01:51
8. Long term dusk glimpses 03:33
9. Gradations of arms length 01:31
10. Drifting time misplaced 04:15
11. Internal bewildered World 03:29
12. Burning despair does ache 02:37
13. Aching cavern without lucidity 01:19
14. An empty bliss beyond this World 03:36
15. Libet delay 03:57
16. Mournful cameraderie 02:39
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HAFTW 025-027 THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 1-3 3LP 02.2021
Three individual LP's, black vinyl, 500 copies. The first three volumes in the series
available in one set.
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HAFTW 028 B THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 4 2LP+DL 04.2018
HAFTW 028 C THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 4 2LP+DL 04.2018
HAFTW 028 THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 4 DL 04.2018
2LP 1 1. Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions 22:09
2. Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions 21:52
2LP 2 3. Stage 4 Temporary Bliss State 21:01
4. Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions 22:16
LPB Black vinyl, mastered and cut by Lupo. Comes in a thick spine, deluxe
gatefold sleeve featuring reproductions of three new paintings by Ivan Seal.
LPC Strictly Limited Blue vinyl - edition of 600 copies, mastered and cut by
Lupo. Comes in a thick spine, deluxe gatefold sleeve featuring reproductions
of three new paintings by Ivan Seal. Includes a download dropped to your
account.
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HAFTW 029 B THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 5 2LP 09.2018
(Note : 2LP , black vinyl)
HAFTW 029 C THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 5 2LP 09.2018
(Note : 2LP , 600 copies on blue vinyl)
HAFTW 029 THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 5 DL 09.2018
LP 1 1. Stage 5 Advanced Plaque Entanglements 22:35
2. Stage 5 Advanced Plaque Entanglements 22:48
LP 2 3. Stage 5 Synapse Retrogenesis 20:47
4. Stage 5 Sudden Time Regression Into Isolation 22:08
(Note : mastered and cut by Lupo. Comes in a thick spine, deluxe gatefold sleeve
featuring reproductions of three new paintings by Ivan Seal.
Includes a download dropped to your account)
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HAFTW 030 B THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 6 2LP 03.2019
HAFTW 030 C THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 6 2LP 03.2019
LP 1 1. Confusion so thick you forget forgetting 21:53
2. A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat 21:36
LP 2 3. Long decline is over 21:09
4. Place in the World fades away 21:19
(Note : double LP , black or blue vinyl, mastered and cut by Lupo. Comes
in a thick spine, deluxe gatefold sleeve featuring reproductions
of three new paintings by Ivan Seal)
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HAFTW 028/029/030 THE CARETAKER : EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME-STAGE 4-6 6LP 02.2021
1. Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions 21:52
2. Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions 21:52
3. Stage 4 Temporary Bliss State 21:01
4. Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions 22:16
5. Stage 5 Advanced Plaque Entanglements 22:35
6. Stage 5 Advanced Plaque Entanglements 22:48
7. Stage 5 Synapse Retrogenesis 20:47
8. Stage 5 Sudden Time Regression Into Isolation 22:08
9. Stage 6 Confusion so thick you forget forgetting21:53
10. Stage 6 A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat 21:36
11. Stage 6 Long decline is over 21:09
12. Stage 6 Place in the World fades away 21:19
(Note : black vinyl, three individual gatefold 2LP's. Edition of 500 for now, but
more might be available down the line)
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HAFTE 001 LEYLAND KIRBY : WHEN WE PARTED MY HEART WANTED TO DIE 2LP 09.2009
01. When We Parted, My Heart Wanted To Die (Friedrichshain Memory)
02. The Sound Of Music Vanishing
03. The Beauty Of The Impending Tragedy Of My Existence
04. And As I Sat Beside You I Felt The Great Sadness That Day
05. Tonight Is The Last Night Of The World
06. To The Place Between The Twilight And The Dawn
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HAFTWLP 103 THE CARETAKER:EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME STAGES 1-3 3LP 01.2018
HAFTWCD 103 THE CARETAKER:EVERYWHERE AT THE END OF TIME STAGES 1-3 3CD 10.2017
1. Its just a burning memory 03:32
2. We dont have many days 03:35
3. Late afternoon drifting 03:30
4. Childishly fresh eyes 02:58
5. Slightly bewildered 02:01
6. Things that are beautiful and transient 04:34
7. All that follows is true 03:31
8. An autumnal equinox 02:46
9. Quiet internal rebellions 03:30
10. The loves of my entire life 04:04
11. Into each others eyes 04:36
12. My heart will stop with joy 02:41
13. A losing battle is raging 04:37
14. Misplaced in time 04:42
15. What does it matter how my heart breaks 02:37
16. Glimpses of hope in trying times 04:43
17. Surrendering to despair 05:03
18. I still feel as though I am me 04:07
19. Quiet dusk coming early 03:36
20. Last moments of pure recall 03:52
21. Denial unravelling 04:16
22. The way ahead feels lonely 03:45
23. Back there Benjamin 04:14
24. And heart breaks 04:05
25. Hidden sea buried deep 01:20
26. Libets all joyful camaraderie 03:12
27. To the minimal great hidden 01:41
28. Sublime beyond loss 02:10
29. Bewildered in others eyes 01:51
30. Long term dusk glimpses 03:33
31. Gradations of arms length 01:31
32. Drifting time misplaced 03:45
33. Internal bewildered World 03:29
34. Burning despair does ache 02:37
35. Aching cavern without lucidity 01:19
36. An empty bliss beyond this World 03:36
37. Libet delay 03:57
38. Mournful cameraderie 02:39
(Note : deluxe collectors edition - 38 Track, triple CD set housed inside a deluxe
8-panel digifile complete with brand new artwork from Ivan Seal on each
panel. Includes a download of the full set dropped in your account)
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